Office and Production Manager
| Organisation: | The London Honey Company |
| Salary: | Dependent on Experience |
| Location: | Bermondsey, London |
| Hours: | Part Time |
| Position type: | Paid |
| Contract: | Permanent |
| Closing date: | Fri 14 March 14 |
| Website: | www.thelondonhoneycompany.co.uk |
| Contact name: | Steve Benbow |
| Contact telephone: | 02073947072 |
| Contact email: | steve@thelondonhoneycompany.co.uk |
Hours: 24 hours p/w
Start Date: 1st April – 14th April
About the London Honey Company
Founded over fifteen years ago when Steve Benbow started keeping bees on the roof of his ex-council block near Tower Bridge, the London Honey Company are purveyors of fine honeys both from our own hives, scattered around London and the UK, but also from a selection of beekeepers who, like us, choose to produce from more unusual nectar sources.
We sell artisan honey to high profile and quality establishments such as Fortnum and Mason, Harrods, The Savoy, Heston Blumenthal’s the Fat Duck, Angela Hartnett’s Café Murano, La Fromagerie and many other valued customers. In addition Steve and the team provide training for beekeepers and businesses and manage beehives for clients in the capital and across England.
Eight years ago Steve became bee-master to Fortnum and Mason, managing 4 ornate hives on the roof of their store in Piccadilly and today we now service hives for The National Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern and Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum and a variety of other commercial clients and their honey is sold exclusively within their stores.
Increasingly the company is concerned with the wider problems faced by pollinators. The London Honey Company is increasing its education work and projects to highlight things we can all do to help pollinators.
This is an exciting time to join the company as we are growing fast and planning a move into a specially fitted new larger warehouse.
The Office and Production Manager is a varied and challenging role with great potential to grow with the company in the future.
Key Responsibilities:
• Innovate to improve company work practices and identify new opportunities keeping the company authentic, delicious, fresh and fun.
• To drive honey sales through customer communications, responding to sales enquiries and disseminating product information.
• To maintain office and warehouse records including honey stock, production, sales, course bookings etc.
• Monitor business finance including bank transactions, outstanding sales invoices and purchase invoices. Contribute to financial forecasts and reports. Make authorised payments.
• Prepare accounts to be reconciled by the accountant, assist the accountant in preparing the quarterly VAT returns and the closing of end of year accounts.
• Manage office and warehouse supplies.
• Manage company post and emails.
• Prepare sales paperwork and arrange the delivery of orders.
• Oversee warehouse production and staff in Steve Benbow’s absence: bottling of honey, cutting of comb, labeling and packing of honey orders.
• Collaborate with clients and colleagues, including designers, on the development of new products both under the London Honey Company brand and white-label products (products sold under other brand names).
Other responsibilities and opportunities:
• Update the company blog.
• Attend and work events such as festivals, honey tastings and shows.
• Assist with beekeeping.
• Honey processing and packing.
• Assist with beekeeping courses.
• Assist in managing hive servicing contracts including site assessments, attending client meetings and maintaining client contact.
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Organic Veg Box Marketing & Events Assistant
| Organisation: | Woodlands Organic Farm |
| Salary: | c.£15,000 pa |
| Location: | Kirton, near Boston |
| Hours: | Full Time |
| Position type: | Paid |
| Contract: | Fixed Term Contract |
| Closing date: | Sun 16 March 14 |
| Website: | www.woodlandsfarm.co.uk |
| Contact name: | Karl |
| Contact telephone: | 01205724778 |
| Contact email: | karl@woodlandsfarm.co.uk |
We are seeking an outgoing person with eloquent verbal and written communication skills. You must be passionate about parsnips, vivacious about vegetables and creative with crudités.
In this newly created position you will play a key role in developing and expanding our successful box scheme and the Woodlands Farm brand. You will help to build relationships with new customers face-to-face through events such as county shows and in businesses through healthy living and green days. You will help to develop a positive dialogue with existing customers via social media, e-newsletters, farm events and via the phone.
About The Box Scheme
We set up our Box Scheme as a pilot project in 2000, our idea being to supply people living locally with fresh, affordable organic produce. This is still our aim today. We grow, pick, pack and deliver 85% of the vegetables ourselves. More recently we’ve added our own fruit and meat (beef, lamb, pork and turkeys) to our range, together with eggs and numerous other items such as chickens, pasta and breakfast cereals. We also include flowers and even poems written and inspired by life on the farm. It’s hard work but very rewarding to have such a direct link with our customers. So much more satisfying than supplying large retailers.
The Box Scheme has been a wonderful source of employment. At a time when jobs have been lost in farming it has created around 15 full-time positions at Woodlands. It has also helped foster what might be called a family atmosphere on the farm. I often think these are consequences of moving away from a farming system based on quantitative values to qualitative ones.
At the heart of the Box Scheme is a wish to reconnect people with the land and to foster affection for it. You see the raw beauty of a field or the whisker of a hare and you want to celebrate them. I like to feel our boxes carry the signature of such momentous things as well as food we can all enjoy.
The Farm
Woodlands Farm lies on the fertile Lincolnshire fens in an area known as South Holland. Situated five miles south-east of Boston the farm consists of level silt fields which were reclaimed from the sea by the monks of Crowland Abbey some nine hundred years ago. This is a landscape of wide-open skies and colossal skies – ‘all sky and geometry’ the poet John Clare once said.
Woodlands Farm practices an ‘open farm’ policy. School visits are encouraged and open days are held for customers and special interest groups. The farm has an active arts programme and hosts events and demonstration days for organisations such as the Soil Association and Garden Organic (HDRA). It’s intended to develop the farm further as a
resource for the local community.
Responsibilities• To assist the Box Scheme Team in organising and attending an annual calendar of shows and events across our delivery area
• To evaluate all events to inform future marketing activity and targets
• To sign up new customers for a Woodlands veg box
• To work with the Box Scheme Team to develop ways to attract and engage new customers
• To help to write and design newsletters, marketing literature, social media updates, e-newsletters, brochures etc
• To support the management of our website,
www.woodlandsfarm.co.uk• To assist with wholesale sales when required
Your skills & personal attributes
• The Marketing & Events Assistant is an ideal post for someone who can demonstrate the passion and flexibility to tackle all aspects of marketing in an exciting and fast moving sector.
• Your communication skills will help to establish Woodlands Farm as THE Organic Scheme in Lincolnshire and the East Midlands.
• You will need to fully understand the ethics behind our vision.
• You will need a passion for great customer service in order to drive great results.
• You will need to be articulate with good writing skills and have an ability to write effective marketing literature.
• You will need to demonstrate your ability to plan your workload efficiently together with excellent IT and presentation skills.
• You will need a valid UK driving licence.
• You will have a strong interest in food, cooking and farming.
• You will be comfortable with a wide range of people, from children to business leaders.
• You will be willing and able to travel within our region.
• You will be flexible on working hours. Some evening and weekend work will be required.
Cover Letter: In a maximum of 400 words, please outline why you would succeed in the role and fit in the Woodlands ethos. You may use any work or personal experiences to demonstrate your abilities.
The closing date for the applications is Sunday 16th March 2014
Short-listed candidates will be contacted by Friday 21st March 2014
